World-renowned adventurer Will Gadd is having a rethink about his ice-climbing career and carbon footprint after discovering that his planned ascent of Tanzania's Mount Kilimanjaro was no longer possible due to the extensive shrinking of its glaciers.
Gadd, the first person to climb a frozen Niagara Falls, had hoped to scale the remaining ice atop Africa's highest peak with climbing partner Sarah Hueniken in February. But when they got there, they discovered that the extremely challenging Messner route they wanted to attempt - scaled only once since the 1980s - had lost so much ice it was impossible to ice-climb.
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